AD fundamentals
PowerShell Remoting: Accessing Remote Computers with Precision
In today's interconnected IT environments, managing remote computers is an essential task for system administrators. PowerShell Remoting, a powerful feature of Windows PowerShell, allows administrators to access and control remote machines ...
How to Create an Event Log in the Event Viewer Using PowerShell
Introduction Event Viewer in Windows is a powerful tool that stores a record of application and system messages, including errors, information messages, and warnings. It's a vital tool for system administrators for troubleshooting and keeping track ...
Dism Cleanup Image: Streamline Your Windows System
If you're a Windows user, you may have encountered situations where your system starts to accumulate unnecessary files and consumes valuable disk space. These files can slow down your computer and affect its overall performance. However, there's a ...
PowerShell Out-File: Harnessing the Power of Output Redirection in PowerShell
Introduction PowerShell is a powerful scripting language and automation framework that offers a wide range of features to system administrators and students. One essential aspect of PowerShell is its ability to handle and manipulate output ...
Comprehensive Guide to ipconfig Commands
Introduction As an advanced system administrator or student studying networking and system administration, it is crucial to have a strong understanding of various command-line tools that aid in managing and troubleshooting network configurations. One ...
Group Policy Application Process
When the policy application process has to retrieve Group Policy information to apply to the Group Policy client, it uses a pull approach. For instance, the Group Policy client polls the Group Policy server to look for new policy settings supplied by ...
LDAP and Active Directory
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is a directory service that is based on Directory Access Protocol (DAP). DAP was used along with X.500 directory service. The drawback with DAP was that it placed large amount of processing burden on the ...
User Authentication and User Authorization
Active Directory user authentication confirms the identity of any user trying to log on to a domain. After confirming the identity of the user, he is allowed access to resources. A key feature of this is the single sign-on capability. This requires ...
Global Catalog Server
A domain controller stores domain information related to its domain alone. To locate objects outside its domain is beyond its scope. Hence there is a need for a Global Catalog server. The global catalog contains a partial representation of all ...
Active Directory Trusts
Communication between the domains happens through trusts. Trusts are needed for users in one domain to access the resources in another domain. There are two types of default trusts that are automatically created as shown in the figure. Parent and ...
Active Directory Objects List
Objects are the fulcrum of Active Directory. The ease of an organization’s resource management comes from the fact that objects give AD a modular structure. Introduction The individual components of an organization’s network are called objects in ...
Active Directory Objects
Real-world entities such as users, computers are represented as objects in Active Directory. Objects are the fulcrum for the very existence of Active Directory. One important aspect with respect to object characteristics is that some of the objects ...
Active Directory Fundamentals
Every day you walk into your organization, access numerous resources like files, printers and many more. Have you ever thought about the process that goes behind all these? Have you ever thought about how your identity is verified and you are given ...
Comparison of Active Directory and Windows NT
It is at this juncture (when centralized computing and resource management was a demand that grew imperative every day) that Microsoft came up with Windows NT, which simplified and enhanced the domain-centric approach to resource management in its ...
Benefits of Active Directory
The benefits of Active directory usage are manifold. It makes the task of network administration simpler by maintaining a central repository of information. It provides Off-Site a single destination to look out for information. Highly secured access ...
DNS and Active Directory
Domain Name System (DNS) is a name resolution method that is used to resolve host names to IP addresses. It is used on TCP/IP networks and across the internet. DNS is a namespace. Active Directory is built on DNS. DNS namespace is used internet wide ...
FSMO Roles
Active directory is a multi-master enabled database. It provides the flexibility to allow changes to occur at any of the domain controllers. Flexibility comes with added responsibility. There is a need to prevent conflicting updates from being made ...
Domain Controllers
Computers that function as servers in a domain can be a member server or a domain controller. A member server belongs to a particular domain but does not authenticate the users of that domain. There is no Active directory data installed in it. Domain ...
Framework of Active Directory
The Active Directory structure is built on the domain level. The framework that holds the objects can be viewed at different levels namely forest, domain trees and domains. At the top of the level is the forest. A forest holds all the Active ...